SpaceX Just Made its Fastest Successful Rocket Landing on a Drone Ship

Overnight, SpaceX attempted to make its most audacious rocket landing yet on its drone ship. Amazingly, it succeeded.

Last month, SpaceX managed to land a Falcon 9 rocket on the drone ship called Of Course I Still Love You after a resupply mission to the ISS. But this time round the rocket was set for a geostationary transfer orbit, which would expose it to higher velocities and greater re-entry heating on its way back down. SpaceX had admitted that it was “unlikely” that the landing would be a repeat success — then it went ahead and nailed it anyway.